Stampin' and Scrappin' and French Foliage

I love Fall, and I love the stamp set, French Foliage.  It is so easy to make the leaves look very realistic.
My first sample here is a scrapbook page of my son's school picture.  I took my cardstock colors from his shirt and went from there.  I had a couple of leaves already made, so I thought why not make a few more, and make the page with a fall theme to it.

Making the leaves is fun and easy.  First I inked up my stamp with so saffron.  I then used a dauber to ink up the stamp in a few areas with dusty durango (retired).  Lastly, I went around the outer edges of the stamp with old olive.  Next, I stamped and cut out each leaf.  After they were cut out, I again used a dauber and dusty durango to ink all the edges, and I used a sponge and old olive to lightly go over each leaf.  I think they turned out looking very realistic.
I used the same technique on the card below.  I also used the sketch from Stamping 411 and the challenge from Stampin' Sisters in Christ to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by and please leave me a comment,
Patty Mickle

No Layers Cards

The Late Night Stampers' challenge this week is to make a no layer card-- meaning you can only use one piece of card stock.  I actually made two very, very similar cards and decided to show both of them.  I made two because I forgot to use my embossing buddy on the first one and therefore had stray embossing powder in places I didn't want it.
I started with very vanilla card stock on which I stamped leaves in versamark ink using the French Foliage stamp set.  After heat embossing the leaves and sentiment I sponged the entire card front with pumpkin pie ink.

This first card was the one I forgot to use the embossing buddy on.  It turned out ok after all.  I also intentionally sponged the ink on unevenly.

On this card I sponged the ink on more evenly over all.

Here you can see how thin the card is with no layers.
I really enjoyed making this card.  Just think how easy a card like this would be to mail with no layers to have to worry about.
Thanks for stopping by, and please leave me a comment,
Patty Mickle
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